There are many books out there about AI, but which should we read? Towards Data Science compiled a list of the top 10 books recommended by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and other billionaires (Patrick Collison of Stripe, Bill Joy of Sun Systems, Peter Thiel of Paypal, Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn, Marc Andreessen of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, Eric Schmidt of Google, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, and John Chambers of Cisco Systems).
#1 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Recommended by Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Patrick Collison
#2 The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
Recommended by Bill Gates, Bill Joy, and Patrick Collison
#3 Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Recommended by Elon Musk, Bill Gates
#4 Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
Recommended by Peter Thiel, Patrick Collison
#5 The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Recommended by Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen
#6 Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Recommended by Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt
#7 AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Recommended by Marc Benioff
#8 The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Recommended by John Chambers
#9 Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
Recommended by Elon Musk
#10 Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Recommended by Bill Gates
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